Subj : For you SBBS Sysops operating on *NIX, what's your flavor?
To   : Accession
From : Arelor
Date : Sun Jun 09 2024 04:14 pm

 Re: For you SBBS Sysops operating on *NIX, what's your flavor?
 By: Accession to DaiTengu on Sat Jun 08 2024 08:04 am

>  D>  Fun fact, Gentoo now offers binary packages.  This is a thing they did
>  D> recently.
>
> I take it you mean, "officially", or something? I remember there being side
> projects that tried to introduce it, especially when Sabayon Linux was
> popular. But to be honest, Gentoo is Gentoo. Binary packages kind of defeats
> the entire purpose and meaning of Gentoo. :)

Distributions and Operating Systems that have an integrated way of dealing with both binary packages and source ports are the best man-made thing ever, I swear .

One of the reasons why I think the BSDs rock is precisely because you can install binary packages if you are in a hurry, but if you want to install something after adding a custom patch yourself or do some nifty tricks, you can use the ports trees and build a package (with its dependencies) tailored to your system.

In fact, one of the big pluses of Slackware is that it has ports-like tools that allow you to build your stuff as you see fit without needing to go the wacko-crazy way of building absolutely everything from the ground up :-p


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